How to survive the coming economic disaster? Ideas?

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OK, so I am all for discussion, theory and debate, but it seems to me our current political and economic policies are going to continue our current trend towards economic collapse. I hope I am wrong, but I believe it is prudent to plan for the worst at this point. What suggestions do you have to survive and hopefully profit from the coming years? The more specific the better! I happen to be a young professional living near Boston who is working in the clean energy field. I am looking for suggestions, I don’t have the answers. Some points of discussion:

  1. Invest in gold? Real gold not commodity funds? Where do you store it? Who do you buy from? Silver? other commodities? Chinese yuan?
  2. Move to someplace rural to escape urban strife or move to someplace urban to escape rural economic malaise? New Hampshire? Canada?
  3. Move all investments offshore to escape increasing taxes? Cayman Islands?
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Euro Pacific Capital. Peter Schiff seems to know what he is talking about, and has investment strategies catered to such a collapse.

http://europac.net/

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I would suggest disaster diversity. Gold, limited tax liability, investing with the wise rather than the risky.

But what I cannot figure out at all is why so many people think that moving someplace rural is the best option in a disaster (you did not of course…you just reminded me about it) . Urban areas have so many more advantages over rural areas in the distribution of goods and services. A simple example of this is if you go to a country where everything has gone to hell and there is poverty and inflation…you will not see people flee the city to hunker down in the heartland you will see people risk it all to live in a shantytown in the middle of a city. Why? Because rural areas are always worse off economically.

Just being in central , populated area will draw employers, food etc. since people need to sell stuff , make stuff and eat stuff. The urban strife is much more preferable to me than quaintly starving to death.

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Mexico.

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Well, I am from a rural area and if shit really hits the fan, I wouldn’t move.

Here I have enough space to grow my own food, enough ammo and arrows and know-how to hunt my own food, make my own clothes, etc.

In the city, sure there are many goods and services that are more readily available…if you have the money or means of exchange to get them. If we have an economic collapse, hyper-inflation will probably be ever present, and I think it will make the exchange of goods and services quite difficult for lots of people.

This is just coming from a boy who has lived in the country his whole life, though.

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I have lived in both rural Iowa and New York City and growing food and hunting has some good survival value (and some good food and enjoyment value when there is not a crisis) that is an undenyable advantage over the city life but I still will be one of those hunkering down in the city since I have more faith in the division of labor that cities offer over my ability to hunt and grow food (and I used to hunt and grow food so it is not like I am inexperienced at those).

I think the best thing to do in a crisis is to stay where you are and where you feel confident in your abilities and your friends and family. I think that is the more important criteria to consider rather than worry about if urban or rural is better.

Now lets debate what automotive modifications coudl be made to a 1989 Buick Century to make it more effective in killing zombies.

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How confident are some of you that we will have a collapse of this magnitude?

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http://www.geekologie.com/2008/05/02/zombie-car-1.jpg

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You can survive by:

making allies [friends] that can be useful to you down the road. shelter, food, knowledge, trade, etc

protecting yourself: come up with an escape plan to flee from your property. practice, time yourself, thnk up all kinds of scenarios lol. get a gun, machne gun, grenades, stock up on anything you can get your hands on

investing / saving: invest in gold, hide them underground, or wherever you think someone else can’t get to them. look into peter shiff

I’m no pro, just coming up with a few ideas lol

Learn about how to make money by farming and stuff. Learn new skills, stock up on food, but not too much, you want to be mobile.

Booby trap your property. The state would never expect that lol. get a hold of some land mines if you live in a rural area. Poison gas? ha

Use prepaid credit cards, prepaid cell phones, prepaid everything

Exercise. Do some tai bo, get on a cardio diet, eat healthy

read books, manuals, essays, whatever interests you and whatever increases your ability to survive

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Are there any other Austrian based financial firms out there? Peter Schiff has the noteriety and he knows his Austrian Economics well. However, with all the government intervention infiltrating the markets and creating artificial information, it is still uncertain how the future will playout.

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Jim Puplava, the guy that runs the finance radio show www.financialsense.com is an Austrian, he also runs a financial company called the PFS group @ www.puplava.com . From what I’ve heard from him on his show, he operates his financial company according to the Austrian rule book.